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Marathon everRun FT & HATechnology Overview
José Juan DíazSystems Engineer Div. Virtualización Albora Soluciones
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Agenda
• Availability Definitions
• Marathon Technologies Overview
• everRun FT & HA Architecture
• everRun VM
• Availability examples everRun VM
Availability Definitions
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The Application Availability Spectrum
AL4: Continuous Availability - System Fault Tolerance No user interruption – 99.999% Availability – 5.25 minutes
AL3: High Availability – Traditional ClusteringUser interruption – 99.99% - 52.5 minutes
AL2: Recovery - Data Replication & Back UpUser interruption – 99.9% - 8.76 hours
AL1: Reliability – Hot swappable componentsAll service stops – 99% - 87.6 hours
AL0: Unprotected ServersAll service stops
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Typical use cases
Building Security/Access Control, Process Control
Email, CRM, Database, Financial Systems
Critical File Servers, DNS, Webservers
Non critical systems, test and development,network server applications
Marathon TechnologiesCompany Overview
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Marathon Technologies
• Founded 1993
• Worldwide headquarters in Littleton MA
• 15 years delivering proven availability solutions
built on fault-tolerant capabilities
• 13 US Patents
• Award winning technology
• Over 2000 customers worldwide
• Over 300 partners worldwide
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Marathon everRunProven in over 2000 Mission Critical Environments
FinancialFinancial MediaMedia GovernmentGovernmentAirlines/AirportsAirlines/Airports ManufacturingManufacturing
PharmaceuticalPharmaceutical TechnologyTechnology Resorts/CasinosResorts/CasinosTelecomTelecom EnergyEnergy
$1 Billion Hedge Fund
Logan
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Marathon Partnerships
• 100% channel model
– Over 300 Distributors, Integrators & VARs
• Microsoft High Potential ISV Program
• Citrix XenServer Technology Partner
– Preferred 3rd party HA vendor
– XenServer HA co-development & integration
• Server & Storage Hardware Manufacturers
– HP, IBM, Fujitsu, etc
• Qualified Hardware List for most popular H/W
• ISV Support in Gaming, Healthcare, Process Control, etc
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Marathon & Citrix Strategic Partnership
• Marathon named “Preferred High Availability
Provider”
• XenServer 5.0 HA “Powered by Marathon”
co-development
• Development agreement in place for tighter
integration of products
• Unique selectable availability levels and
fault-tolerant protection for virtual machines
• All everRun products Citrix Ready certified
“Marathon has a superb plug-in complementary product for XenServer
that delivers fault tolerant computing for the mass market” – Simon
Crosby, CTO, Citrix Virtualization and Management Division
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Oracle
Exchange
SQL
Exchange SCADA
Available, Affordable, Automated – Application Availability
Comprehensive SolutionsAutomated Application Availability
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Marathon EverRUN FT y HA
• EverRUN FT: “Aplicaciones donde el cliente no puede tener perdida de
servicio en entornos físicos.
– Requiere máquinas exactamente iguales.
– Máximo 1 CPU por máquina.
• EverRUN HA: “Alta Disponibilidad para aplicaciones en entorno físico”.
– Ventajas con respecto al Cluster MS: necesita 2003 Enterprise y
Storage Compartido, con EverRun MS Estándar y Storage Local.
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• How do everRun FT & HA work?– Patented architecture creates a single virtual server with a fault-tolerant I/O
subsystem using two mirrored physical servers
– ComputeThru® failures vs. traditional failover approaches
– Intelligent Policy Management – automated vs. scripted
Comprehensive SolutionsAutomated Application Availability
everRun® VM
Why respond to failure?PREVENT IT.
José Juan Díaz.Systems Engineer Div. Virtualización Albora Soluciones
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everRun VMUnique Architecture – VM Fault-Tolerance in Software
•Installs directly onto a pair of Citrix XenServer hosts –Thin software layer between hypervisor and VM environment
•Auto-creates and maintains identical PVM on alternate host–“Active” VM is paired with a “Ready” VM–Assured recovery if Active VM host fails
•PVM’s I/O resources are transparently paired–Aggregated across both XenServer hosts–Fully redundant networking & storage–“ComputeThru” device failures
•Availability Manager attaches to each PVM–Mini Linux VM, manages I/O redirection–Automated error detection, fault handling
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Flexibility to “Dial-in” Availability by VM
• Simple “click-through”
operation to protect VM’s
• Future product releases
will allow different
protection levels for each
VM
• Choose appropriate level
of availability per
application
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Citrix XenServer and everRun VM
Level 3 - everRun VM System-Level FT (1H ’09)
Level 2 - everRun VM Component-Level FT(Available now)
Level 1 – Citrix XenServer 5.0 HA(everRun VM Basic Failover)
Citrix XenServer Enterprise
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Oracle
everRun VM - Key Benefits Summary
•Available•Zero downtime due to subsystem failures•Patented “ComputeThru” technology ensures transparent fail-out of devices•No complex failover management or testing•No false failovers•Mirrored storage for zero data loss
•Affordable•Allows consolidation of multiple business-critical applications•Priced for broad adoption•No shared-disk subsystem or SAN required
•Automated•Easy to install, operate and maintain•“Point and click” operation•Automated fault handling and policy management•Active redundancy provides assured recovery on host failure•No scripting or custom coding
Exchange
SQL
Availability Examples
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Noticias de este Enero 2009.
• Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Expand
Relationship to Provide Fault Tolerant Computing to
More Businesses
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-09MarathonPR.mspx
MICROSOFT CHOSES MARATHON’S FAULT-TOLERANCE AND
HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR WINDOWS 2008 AND HYPER-V